Congratulations to current KALEID artist Therese May on her Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award for 2008. In celebration of the recipients, award winners will exhibit their work at the Triton Museum of Art May 24 - July 6, 2008.

2008 Recipients:
Therese May- Visual Arts 3D
Flo Oy Wong- Visual Arts 3D
Katherine Aoki- Visualo Arts 2D
Rasika Kumar -Performing Arts/Dance
Henry Mollicone- Performing Arts/Music
Peter Malae- Literary Arts

Artists' Reception is May 29th from 6-8pm.
Triton Museum of Art
1505 Warburton Ave.
Santa Clara, CA.

Past KALEID artist Werner Glinka has been very busy with several exhibits - he writes to tell us:

My solo show Extra Ordinary Nature is on view at the Caldwell Gallery, 555 County Government Center Redwood City.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm.
The exhibit is on view until June 30.

I also show some of my new work at the Flea St. Café on a permanent basis. The Flea St. Café serves great food by Jesse Cool. The restaurant is located at 3607 Alameda de las Pulgas in Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: 650.854.1226

You can always see my new work at the 1212 Gallery in Burlingame. The Gallery is located at 1212 Donnelly Ave in downtown Burlingame, right around the corner from Il Fornaio. Please stop by when you are in Burlingame and see what the gallery has to offer.

On a side note, Werner also just returned from a highly successful exhibit in Germany with a group he helped found called the German American Artists.

Seven member artists of GAA participated in the Königswinter Kunsttage 2008. The Kunsttage (Days of Art) are held annualy in Königswinter a City on the river Rhein in the heart of Germany. Königwinter is located close to Cologne the center of the current German art scene and the former German capitol Bonn. The reception with the artists was held on Saturday, March 8 at the Galerie im Margarethenhof.

With May well upon us, it's that time of year for the Silicon Valley Open Studios. As there are too many Phantom Galleries & KALEID artists participating to mention them all here, we encourage you to visit the Open Studios site http://www.svos.org/ to find the locations of their extensive guide so you can plot out your weekends of studio hopping!

Reading begins 7:30 with Open Mic following
Pot luck BYOB

42 Central Ave., Los Gatos (call 408-410-2313 for directions)

Hooping by Rachel Radness and live music by The Meting Face Trio.

Friday, May 9th, 8pm 'til late.
Broken Door Espresso
231 E.Santa Clara Street (across from City Hall)
San Jose, CA

Saturday, May 24th, 7pm - 1am
The Marina 995 Elizabeth Street, Alviso, CA

Come and see what is happening in the Jewelry/Metals Lab in the Department of Art and Design at San Jose State University.

We will be hosting an open house for those individuals interested in the type of work done at our facilities. There will be a media presentation, tour of the lab, metal casting demonstration and discussion of class offerings.

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 - ART BLDG. Rm. 210, 7pm - 9 p.m.
Campus map: http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/docs/SJSU_campus_map.pdf

Fabrications A new perspective in Mexican photography will open on Saturday, May 31st with work by Alex Oliva, Cintia Druan, David Corona Fernando, Montiel Klint, Juan Pablo Meneses, Paula Islas, Rogelio Septimo & Ricardo Sierra. Live performance by Panthelion.

You can also view the works here: http://www.flickr.com/fabrications_xpo

Saturday, May 31st, 6pm 'til late.
Art Art Common House Gallery
1035 South 6th Street
San Jose, CA

The San Jose Glass Artist Alliance (SJGAA) presents...

THE ART GLASS FARMER'S MARKET ~ Exhibit & Sale Featuring Exquisite Fine Art Glass Fruits, Vegetables, and More!

At the Circle of Palms Paseo in Downtown San Jose

May 2, 2008, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Preview & Sale)
May 3, 3008, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (Exhibit & Sale)
Admission is FREE

Browse and shop for the "freshest" in fine art glass fruits, vegetables, flowers and more at the Art Glass Farmer's Market, May 2 - May 3, 2008 at the Circle of Palms Paseo (between the Fairmont Hotel and the San Jose Museum of Art) in downtown San Jose.

Presented by the newly formed San Jose Glass Artist Alliance (SJGAA), this unique exhibit and sale will feature a wide display of fine art glass pieces that permanently captures the many facets and beauty of the garden. Select from delectable hand blown glass fruits and vegetables and other nature-inspired glass art including flowers, cactus, eggs and more. Veteran glass collectors and art glass enthusiasts alike will be able to find something unique to add to their collections.

For more information on the Art Glass Farmer's Market and the SJGAA, visit the SJGAA website: www.sjgaa.org, or call 408.745.7445.

Artists' Reception First Friday May 2nd, 7-9pm
Music by Elevator Out

The Market 2.0 by Josh Hires

On the surface, The Market is a look at a single day in the life of the many street vendors in Bay-Area farmers markets. This collection of work is a culmination of Josh Hires’ targeted research and photography efforts over the past 2 years. Initially a BFA project at San Jose State University, the images strive to show us a dual purpose. Firstly, they showcase a cultural phenomenon that is rather unique within the scope of America’s agriculture scene. Second, and perhaps most importantly they address the larger question of “what is for dinner, and how do the varied answers to this question effect us as a society”.

Comprised of a series of 20x20 and larger Light Jet Prints, the show displays several aspects of our daily eating habits, but most specifically the habit of shopping at a local farmers market.

Josh Hires is a Bay Area photographer who has shown in venues from San Joaquin Valley’s Spectrum Photography Gallery to magazines and other Central Valley Publications.

Rampart by Philo Northrup

Philo Northrup has been working on his Rampart project since 2006. The term, rampart, means an imposing fortification or castle wall. Northrup's rampart consists of a series of large found-object assemblages, which, when displayed close together, form one giant construction that covers an entire side of a building.

The basic concept is to take the practice of assemblage - recombining disparate objects into a cohesive whole - to a grander scale so that the resulting piece is Monumental.

The individual components focus on color and texture using standard geometric shapes (see above image "Blue X"). Often the base objects are construction materials such as doors and windows.

The Kaleid Gallery will show a small version of Rampart, a larger version will be exhibited at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2009.

Northrup's artwork has been exhibited at numerous venues including the San Jose Museum of Art, USC Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art, California Museum of Art, Venice ArtWalk, LACE Annualé and the Bayannale.

Most recently he had a solo show at the True World Gallery in Joshua Tree, CA. Northrup is best known for his ArtCars, which have appeared in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Artweek, LA Times, SF Chronicle, SF Weekly, San Jose Mercury News, Juztapoz and Wired.

This reception is part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk and is free and open to the public.

If you're available and are willing to volunteer, we can ensure you that you will be a part of an amazing community spectacle that you'll enjoy and remember forever!

Volunteer Docents Needed To Host Homouroboros!

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is about to install a huge animated zoetrope full of life-sized monkeys in Discovery Meadow from May 15 to June 15, and we need some unique volunteer help to ensure the public touches it!

Wired Magazine called Peter Hudson’s Homouroboros winner of the 2007 “Wow, did you see that?” award at Burning Man, among hundreds of unconventional expressions of radical creativity. Triggered by the public playing drums, the 24’ high 30’ wide spinning installation features strobe lights at night and shutter glasses by day to give the appearance the monkeys are swinging through a giant Victorian-era tree sculpture.

Homouroboros is perhaps the most interactive, viscerally intense, and engaging public art most people have encountered. It is coming to the park, not a museum, as an experiment, because San Jose is one of the most diverse cities in the nation and this free gift is for everyone. To support an amazing public experience with high-tech art so unconventional, we seek docents to staff the installation, invite folks to play with it, answer questions, and call our support team of Monkey Wrenches if anything breaks. Won’t you help? Please email: southbay@burningman.com.

We especially need docents during daytime hours, beginning 10AM, and we would especially love groups from companies, schools, cultural, or community organizations to host for a shift or two. We expect crowds 10AM-10:30PM since Homouroboros will be actively promoted as a preview to the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, coming June 4-8 - don’t miss that!

Engaging passers-by who are totally amazed by a giant art installation we’re hosting is an experience we love, and invite you to know. We also invite you to know us, since this installation and the Black Rock Arts Foundation are both about stimulating community and civic participation through art. We deeply appreciate Anno Domini and Phantom Galleries' strong support of this project and our mission.

Project Page: http://www.blackrockarts.org/projects/homouroboros
Team Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BigMonkeyBusiness/
Images: http://tinyurl.com/63ar4e
Video: http://tinyurl.com/5fh7c8

Radio interview explaining the proposed bill:
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan/orphan_works_information.mp3

YOU CAN BE HEARD -

Find your representative: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

To get the attention of your representatives, you need to immediately do ALL FOUR of the following steps:

1. Call the representative and give the bill numbers and say I oppose this (You'll get someone who works for your representative and they will log your address and your pro/con feedback.)

2. email your representative

3. Overnight or priority mail a snail mail letter

4. Fax a letter

Get as many signatures as possible on the paper copies.

The original intent for the bill when first proposed was so that educational institutions and non-profit organizations could use copyrighted materials in print form without fear of lawsuit if, after searching for the copyright owners and not being able to locate the owner, the copyrighted materials were subsequently used. That was the original intent. Once the stock image companies, (and others that have to pay to use copyrighted images) got wind of this, however, they realized that with a few changes and added clauses, they could benefit from this, too. In other words, greed has gotten in the way of morals and reason. Those "benefactors" supporting the bill have everything to gain..at our expense.

Here is a sample letter you can edit and send to your local and/or state representatives and Senators. These letters work best when you make your point clear, do not curse, and make them aware that you live in their district or state and can vote for or against them.

Feel free to make this personal with your story on how the Orphan Works legislation will harm your income. Stories are incredibly powerful.

Faxes work better than e-mails, as e-mails are too easy to delete.

Congressman/Congresswoman/Senator (their name)
(their contact info)
Fax: (their fax number)

Re: The Orphan Works legislation Bill # (either H.R. 5889 or S. 2913 depending who you're writing)

Dear (their name),

My name is (your name) and I live in (your city, state). After reading about the Orphan Works bill, I am shocked and outraged that this could happen in our country.

This Orphan Works legislation, if passed, will severely impact my income and life as an artist. Not only will it give license for others to legally steal and use my work for free, it will be virtually impossible for me to afford the time and money to register my creations in all the potential new registries.

(your personal story if you wish. It should show hardship under the new bill)

I strongly urge you to vote AGAINST the Orphan Works bill and protect my rights, my copyrights, to all that I have and will create.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

(your name)
(your address)

Original PG post April 11th - Mark Simon has a good article on the proposed Orphan Works legislation that will require artists to register every sketch, drawing, painting, word, photo, sculpture, design with a designated registry to protect their ownership of the work. This expensive and time consuming obligation will devastate the artist's livelihood and rights of their own work.

As it stands now, whatever you create and put in tangible form (on paper, canvas, photo, etc) is automatically protected copyright. You may stop anyone from using the image without your prior consent. This new law would reverse that automatic right.

Please read the article, and write to your congressman. The only parties that benefit from this legislation will be the registering body and the companies that take advantage of unprotected works (ad agencies, royalty stock art/photo companies, etc.)

As mentioned in the article, this will not go away...this will eventually pass if we don't stop it. Read it here.

Cindy Stokes has a solo exhibition of her black and whitie photography series Before.

Cindy says: While visiting old homesteads and industrial sites, I wonder about the people who erected the buildings, fashioned the tools, and simply lived and worked daily at the sites. The commonplace markings and artifacts at these places feel like unintended artworks that retain something of the lives lived there before. My images from these structures represent memory and history etched in wood, cement and steel.

Center for the Performing Arts, main lobby
500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA
April 22 thru June 23, 2008. Lobby is open MWF, Noon -1pm and 1 hour before performances.

Cindy also reminds us all that Silicon Valley Open Studios is the first 3 weekends in May. For a full schedule, visit www.svos.org.

Artist Xchange Gallery
3169 16th Street, San Francisco

The Third Symposium on California Arts and Healthy Communities

3 pm to 4:30 pm, Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Santa Clara County Office of Education, Board Room
1290 Rider Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131

California spends three cents per person from the State’s General Fund for the California Arts Council, less than any other U.S. state or territory. How are cities and counties addressing this gap in the California arts infrastructure? What strategies for local public and private philanthropy are being developed? This Symposium, highlighting the experience of Santa Clara County, will explore the value of the arts for youth development, economic development and the quality of life in our communities.

Speakers include Larry Stone, Santa Clara County Assessor and a founder of Arts Council Silicon Valley; Bruce Davis, Executive Director of Arts Council Silicon Valley; Connie Martinez, Executive Director of 1stAct Silicon Valley; Kim Walesh, Assistant Director of the San Jose Office of Economic Development; Ruth Tunstall-Grant, Member of the San Jose Arts Commission and Director of the Art Education Program at Children’s Shelter of Santa Clara County; and Mark Walker, Managing Director, Global Community Affairs at Applied Materials. Alma Robinson, Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts, will moderate the panel.

Admission is free, but space is limited and pre-registration is required. Advance registration is available at: http://thirdsymposium.eventbrite.com. Please plan to arrive between 2:30 pm and 2:45 pm. A reception will follow at the conclusion of the program. For more information, please call (408) 998-2787 x 216 or send an e-mail to sanjose@calawyersforthearts.org.